Little video action for you guys snowed in..
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01/21/19 03:33 PM
01/21/19 03:33 PM
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Al_Alguire
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Went out this past weekend to compete in a local Las Vegas Grudge Topo 10 big tire race. Which actually has spread to whomever wants to run it, cars from Cali, NV, AZ and Utah. Anyway we just try to support it when we can. Actually had my car in pieces as of last Thursday as we are getting ready to pull the engine to address the retarded cam situation. But we were asked to attend so we put it back together Thursday night loaded it up Friday night into its new trailer and off we went. The night before they had run a 'Midnight Mayhem" race which is a street car night deal. Well those guys apparently tore the track up, and it was literally peeling rubber up. SO they decided to run us on Saturday in lanes 3/4. Which have been sitting unused since the National event pretty much. SO the track was not exactly in great shape, we took a lot of rubber with us on the first hit,.But we adjusted as much as we could to try and get down it and the car was doing well. This video is our last pass of the day. Guy behind me didn't want to call me out so we got a single. Track came around a bit for this pass. We had the car pretty much as loose as it can go and got a decent hit. 1.043 60' and then some shake about 50' out for about 40-50'. Anyway just a video for your winter enjoyment. Now the engine comes out and will address the cam issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-SEGa81bvY
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Al_Alguire]
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01/21/19 03:52 PM
01/21/19 03:52 PM
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Cab_Burge
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How did you do in the race? How manty cars showed up and raced?
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: dthemi]
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01/21/19 10:57 PM
01/21/19 10:57 PM
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Look's good and sound's good Al,,,had to go out to the garage and give mine a hug after seeing the video.
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Al_Alguire]
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01/22/19 03:05 AM
01/22/19 03:05 AM
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Well I got about 2 inches of slush...while about 35 miles south they got 2 feet! In the mountains, they got up to 4 feet!
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Al_Alguire]
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01/22/19 10:50 AM
01/22/19 10:50 AM
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All those power Adder guys must love the fact you beat them beautiful car insane 60 foot
In the 8s N/A.with Brett miller W8's 5.07 at 133 at 2700lb
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Al_Alguire]
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01/22/19 02:45 PM
01/22/19 02:45 PM
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Al_Alguire
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I feel for you guys suffering with the winter weather. Cant say I miss it a lot. But on the bright side you have time to work on your cars, something we dont get as much of out here. We get a month or two here or there but to be 100% honest I kind of miss having to time to make changes and improvements without missing races.
As for the car thanks for the compliments. It is still a work in progress with some issues we really need to address. Namely the camshaft, but think I am gonna run it this year and order new pistons and a cam at years end. May as well give it some compression too.
Whitedart, Yeah I am not their favorite guy out there it seems. If I can just keep it green. Lobbying now for instant green. Kinda challenging their manhood so to speak. No one has beat me to the other end yet, but I did go -.002 red and -.009 red. Cant push the damn button any harder my darn thumb was still hurting yesterday from trying to bend the steering wheel over.
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Al_Alguire]
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01/22/19 05:23 PM
01/22/19 05:23 PM
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Eric
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I feel for you guys suffering with the winter weather. Cant say I miss it a lot. But on the bright side you have time to work on your cars, something we dont get as much of out here. We get a month or two here or there but to be 100% honest I kind of miss having to time to make changes and improvements without missing races.
As for the car thanks for the compliments. It is still a work in progress with some issues we really need to address. Namely the camshaft, but think I am gonna run it this year and order new pistons and a cam at years end. May as well give it some compression too.
Whitedart, Yeah I am not their favorite guy out there it seems. If I can just keep it green. Lobbying now for instant green. Kinda challenging their manhood so to speak. No one has beat me to the other end yet, but I did go -.002 red and -.009 red. Cant push the damn button any harder my darn thumb was still hurting yesterday from trying to bend the steering wheel over. Al...what button are you using?
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Al_Alguire]
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01/22/19 06:28 PM
01/22/19 06:28 PM
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Al_Alguire
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Same one I always use, a Biondo "double 0", I'm not allowed to use the delay box and after all this is a TS/shoe polish car. FWIW my first pass with the box off I was .029- red pushing pretty hard Honestly without the box I am sure I could go .060 red if I wanted with the TS set up and no box, the car has 1.5" of stagger built into it and the belly pan seems to hang up in the lights a bit too. Car moves a good 10" before the light goes out. The problem is I don't really have room for anything else for a button, it is a VERY tight fit for me. Something like a terminator style button is a definite no go. I do have an adjustable button that is made by a Comp racer I might try too. Last race I just waited til I saw green which makes me look as bad as they do(well not quite as bad but close). I figure challenging their manhood might work, besides these guys love talking crap so just something for me to talk back about. I mean this is a Grudge Race so should be instant green, like an arm drop or flashlight, right?
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"It's never wrong to do the right thing"
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Re: Little video action for you guys snowed in..
[Re: Cab_Burge]
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01/23/19 01:52 PM
01/23/19 01:52 PM
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Al_Alguire
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How about enticing them into a race with you by giving them the move No relights that way Because they are faster than me The top two cars run 4.20's and 4.40's WHEN they get down all the way. I am just a tick slower here so no glory to be had that way, I would be stuck at 3 These guys are HORRIFIC at the tree. As in they celebrate a reation time tats starts with a .1XX. The track is not always great to say the least for this deal. We used to run them on the Mayhem/Street car nights, this year will be during the few test and tunes we have and the track just usually is not real good for those either.
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
"It's never wrong to do the right thing"
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